Huntr

Huntr (huntr.co) is a job application tracker organized around one strong opinion: your search is a pipeline, and a pipeline should look like a board. Every job you're pursuing becomes a card, every stage becomes a column, and moving a role from "applied" to "interview" means dragging a card across the screen. If you've ever run a project in Trello and felt your brain relax, Huntr will feel like home in about ninety seconds. If you haven't, it's still one of the two serious names in application tracking, and the comparison with the other one is worth making carefully.

What Huntr actually does

The board is the product. You set up columns for your stages, and each job card holds the posting details, your notes, contacts at the company, tasks with due dates, and key dates like when you applied and when you last heard back. The Chrome extension is the intake valve: browse any job board or careers page, clip the posting, and it lands on your board as a card with the details parsed out. Over the years Huntr has bolted on resume tools, an autofill assist, and AI writing help, but those are supporting cast. People choose Huntr for the board.

• A drag-and-drop kanban board with customizable pipeline stages
• Job cards holding notes, contacts, tasks, documents, and dates in one place
• A Chrome extension that clips postings from job boards and careers pages
• Multiple boards, useful if you're running parallel searches in different fields or cities
• Resume builder, autofill assistance, and AI writing features added on top of the tracker

The visual layout earns its keep in one specific way: you can see the shape of your search at a glance. Twenty cards stacked in "applied" and nothing in "interview" is a diagnosis you can read in half a second, and it tells you the problem is targeting or materials, not volume. A list view carries the same data but hides the shape.

Huntr vs Teal

This is the comparison most people are actually deciding, so here it is without the hedging. Huntr and Teal both track applications, both have clipper extensions, and both have grown resume features. They differ in center of gravity, and the differences are honest trade-offs rather than one product being better.

• Layout: Huntr is a kanban board you drag cards across; Teal is a list you sort and filter. Pick whichever matches how you already think.
• Resume tooling: Teal is clearly stronger here, with a more mature builder and keyword matching that scores your resume against a specific job description.
• Free tier: Huntr's free plan caps the number of jobs you can track sooner, so heavy-volume searchers hit the paywall faster. Teal's free tier tracks unlimited jobs and limits the AI and matching features instead.
• Feel: Huntr feels like a project management tool for your search; Teal feels like a career platform with a tracker inside it.

A reasonable rule: if the board metaphor genuinely matches your brain and your search is moderate volume, Huntr's daily experience is more pleasant. If you tailor resumes heavily, run high volume, or want one tool to cover tracking and materials, Teal's free tier stretches further and its resume studio does more work. Neither choice is wrong, and switching later is annoying but survivable since both import from the same boards you clip from. Our roundup of the best job application trackers puts both in the context of the wider field.

Huntr pricing

Huntr is freemium. The free plan gives you the board, the extension, and the core tracking experience, with a cap on how many jobs you can track. The paid plan lifts the cap and unlocks the fuller feature set: more documents, more AI credits, and the deeper resume tooling. Pricing changes and promotions happen, so check the current price on their site before deciding. The practical question is volume: a focused search of a couple dozen active applications can live on the free plan for a while, but a wide-net search after a layoff will hit the tracked-job cap within weeks, and at that point you're either paying or archiving cards to make room.

Who Huntr is for

• Visual thinkers who already organize work in Trello, Notion boards, or sticky notes on a wall
• Job seekers running a focused, moderate-volume pipeline where every card gets real attention
• People juggling parallel searches, since separate boards keep a career-change track and a stay-in-field track from blurring together
• Anyone whose current system is a spreadsheet they've stopped opening

It's a weaker fit for very high-volume searches, where the free cap bites early and dragging a hundred cards stops being satisfying, and for people whose real bottleneck is filling out application forms. For that second problem, Simplify attacks the form-filling directly and logs applications automatically, which pairs fine with a Huntr board for the roles you care most about.

How Huntr fits an Offboard search

Huntr answers "where does everything stand?" and answers it beautifully. What it doesn't try to answer is "should this job be on my board at all?" A kanban card for a ghost posting looks exactly like a card for a real one, and it will happily sit in your applied column consuming hope for six weeks. Offboard works that judgment layer: a ghost-job check before a posting earns a card, a role-match read against your actual experience, tailored materials built from company research, and a warm path to a real human instead of another cold submission. The combination is natural. Run each serious posting through Offboard first, and let Huntr manage the survivors. Your board gets smaller and your interview column gets busier, which is the trade every job seeker should be trying to make.